When Swing Meets Bop

In the heart of all the post-war Jazz upheavals his piano becomes a perfect reversible Swing-Bop progression situated between the Basie-like smart temperance and the most modern energetic touch. An amalgam shown in the 1945-48 complete sessions of this CD with its famous Apollo registers together with Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Buck Clayton and Leo Parker plus the unknown trio Sensation or accompanying Sonny Stitt, Milt Jackson, Russell Jacquet, Rat Brown and Max Roach.